At seven o'clock in the morning, I opened the door of the store, and there was a large bunch of lavender on the doorstep, and a sticky note with a cat's paw printed underneath.

"I've been playing for a few months and haven't come back. "I put the lavender in the vase, opened the drawer and put the note in a small iron box, which was already Tsubaki's eighth note.

After a while, the old man came to the store, carrying hot buns in his hand, "Take two and eat them on the way." ”

"Thank you, boss," I said, taking one from the old man's bag and holding it in my mouth, "one is enough." ”

"It's as thin as a monkey and doesn't eat much," the old man saw the lavender in the vase, "and the white cat sent it again?"

"Well, Tsubaki sent it. ”

"I don't think her master cares about her at all, you see how happy she is, she doesn't say that she comes back to see us, no wonder the old man says that the cat is a traitor, and the dog is a loyal minister. The old man said categorically, and as he moved the lavender to a prominent position, he looked very happy.

"Aren't you an old man yourself, said the old man. "I stuffed my mouth with buns.

"You still know that I'm an old man, so let me come to look at the store for you so early. The old man took out a bottle of beer from the warehouse, "Ye Ke, you've been here for a while, why haven't you ever heard you talk about your classmates?" ”

I didn't expect the old man to suddenly ask such a question, and I didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Young people, you still have to deal with young people more, don't always be with old people like me, you should eat and drink with your classmates, and find a girlfriend..."

"Boss, I'll go to school first, I guess I'll be back in the afternoon today!" I quickly picked up my schoolbag and ran away, the old man's lecture didn't end in five minutes, "You're also old, don't drink all the time, bye!"

"You damn boy, get back to me!" the old man's voice sounded behind him, but it was good that I ran fast, otherwise something might have hit me on the head.

The subway is crowded like canned food, and Tianbei groceries are not far from N, seven stops away, but for me, the school is far less comfortable than the store. When I was a kid, I was no different from ordinary boys my age, I liked to play football, I would come home from school to watch Transformers cartoons, and every weekend I would go to a teacher's house not far from home to learn how to draw, and everything seemed normal until my mother left.

She was the most gentle woman in the world, and I remember that she had never lost her temper with me, not only with me, but with everyone, and about her death, my father only told me that it was a car accident, and never mentioned it again, but often sat silently in the study and smoked.

And from the day my mother left, I suddenly found that I could see things that others couldn't see, they looked different, and they might appear somewhere around me at any time, I was scared, but every time I told my father about it, he thought I was playing a prank, and the friends around me gradually alienated me because I always said strange things, and since then I no longer like school, and I no longer like to talk to people, but in private I will look for answers in various books, trying to figure out why I can see strange creatures, and finally I target City A, which is far away from my hometown。

"Ye Ke?" A familiar voice interrupted my memory, and when I looked back, it was Guan Qing who robbed me of my graffiti last time, he was standing not too far away from me, I didn't really want to talk to him, nodded and pretended to be looking at his phone, the subway was so crowded, he didn't speak anymore, I was relieved.

"Eh, you're such an interesting person to look at this kind of thing. Guan Qing's voice sounded in my ears, and I looked sideways, this guy didn't know when he squeezed to my side, and he was looking at the content of "Zi Bu Yu" on my mobile phone screen with interest.

I was taken aback and quickly put my phone in my pocket.

Maybe my reaction was a little big, Guan Qing was stunned for two seconds, and laughed, "Haha, what are you nervous about, like I'm going to eat you, are you going back to school?"

"Well, yes. I tried to squeeze out a smile to ease my embarrassment.

"Why are you laughing worse than crying," Guan Qing leaned closer again, originally I subconsciously wanted to retreat, but the crowded subway made me have no place to hide, "Didn't you sleep well after doing it? ”

"Well, it was a bit noisy outside last night, huh. "Can you sleep well! After I finished making two youkai come to me at the same time to write a letter, and the noise had to come first and come first, and I only slept for three hours.

"Huh?" Guan Qing suddenly looked at me with a playful look as if he had discovered something, "You went back to school so early, didn't you go back to the dormitory at night?"

"yes, I don't live in a dormitory. I replied 1510, and seeing that he was smiling even more evilly, I suddenly realized what he meant, and hurriedly explained, "No... It's not what you think, I work part-time at a grocery store and have to work night shifts, so I basically sleep in the store. ”

Guan Qing probably didn't expect this answer, and blinked, "Oh, that's it, it turns out that you still have to work part-time, no wonder I never saw you in the dormitory." ”

"What about you, why do you go to school early in the morning?" I asked rhetorically, Guan Qing is the kind of person who is handsome, has good popularity, and has good grades, which is the type I have always envied.

"Haha, why don't you ask me, my home is from City A, and sometimes I go home to see my grandmother. He took out a paper bag from his bag, "Here, my grandmother made cookies, you can taste them." ”

I was about to refuse, but he had already shoved the paper bag into my hand, "Then... Thank you. ”

"You're welcome, what do you do part-time at the grocery store??, is the salary high?" Guan Qing really broke the casserole and asked.

"It's just cleaning, taking inventory of goods or something, the salary is okay, old man, oh no my boss, it's still very good to me, no money for food and housing." "Thinking of the old man, I think I will be scolded by him when I go back in the evening.

"Where's that? Can I go too, I just happened to be looking for a part-time job recently." Looking at Guan Qing's sincere eyes, he didn't look like he was joking.

"Well, near the train station, I'm not sure if you can come—" I didn't know how to refuse him, and the old man didn't seem to say that he didn't need anyone anymore.

"Then I'll look for you in your shop this afternoon, and that's it. Guan Qing patted me on the shoulder, "Oh, this is the first time I've talked so much to you, I feel like I can't see you at other times except for public classes and professional classes, and I don't see you participating in class activities." ”

"Well, usually the store is busy, there are electives this afternoon, and there are books to be returned to the library, so I asked my boss for leave. "I don't know why I talked to him so much, is it because he gave me cookies?

"What classes did you take?" Guan Qing is simply 100,000 why.

"Mythology. ”

"Me too, what a coincidence! We can go to class together in the future!"

"Uh... I..."

"I go back to my grandmother's house once a week, and I'll bring you delicious food in the future, my grandma cooks very well, and I'll tell you if I'm right..."

So, I spent the whole morning in Guan Qing's endless conversations, and he didn't let me go even for lunch, and he sat down beside me in the afternoon class.

Strangely, for the first time, I felt that as long as I didn't have strange reactions, it wasn't so annoying to be with my classmates.

This idea continued into the afternoon Mythology lesson.

There are a lot of elective courses in N University, Mythology is a very unpopular course, the course that was originally less than thirty people will not be opened, but I don't know where the teacher of this course is, and it makes a course with less than fifteen electives start smoothly every year, and what's more interesting is that this course only starts in the second half of each semester, today is the first class of mythology, Guan Qing and I chose the same course, I didn't expect it anyway.

Another thing I didn't expect was that the teacher didn't talk about anything in the first class, no self-introduction, no courseware, no board books, just sent everyone an A4 paper with a long list of books, and there was no shortage of obscure books.

"Choose a copy, read it before the end of the semester, and exchange thoughts in class every week. After saying that, we turned around and left, leaving us with no explanation.

There were few students in class, but now it exploded, and everyone left the classroom in twos and threes, and in the end, only me and Guan Qing were left.

"Let's go too," Guan Qing didn't complain about the teacher, as if nothing had happened.

"That, Guan Qing, you still don't come to the store to work part-time. I hesitated, but I spoke anyway.

"Why?" Guan Qing was stunned for a moment, and then asked me with a wicked smile, "Is there a little secret?"

Yes, everyone has secrets, even if they are clear, knowing my secrets will alienate me.

I pretended to be calm and stood up, put the A4 paper in my bag, "What's the secret, I just think it's enough to have me alone in the store." Raising his head and smiling hard, "Thank you for the cookies, I have to go back to the store, see you another day." Leaving Guan Qing in surprise, I left the classroom alone.

I couldn't even be honest with my classmates, and it was still too difficult.

When I got back to the store, the old man was listening to the radio and wanted to ask me something, but he didn't say anything when I didn't want to speak, just said hello when I left.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, the two youkai who came at the same time last night came together again, and they quarreled in front of me, just to be more sincere than who would pay me, I looked at the basket of fish and a basket of oranges in front of me, and I didn't want to say a word tiredly.

Suddenly, there was a slight knock on the door, and now the youkai are getting more and more unruly, and they don't even know the rattle. I walked to the door in a daze, I pushed open the door and said, "Can you please not come from the door..."

Standing in front of the door was a human being, and it was a human being I knew, it was none other than Guan Qing, he walked into the store unceremoniously, "Sounds so lively, is there a party? No wonder you don't want me to come... Ye Ke, in the house, why are you alone?"